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Google turned 10 years old on the weekend, with more info here. So, that makes them only a few months older than OCAU. Which is a little depressing when you think about it. :)
Voting for August's OCAU Iron Photographer is now open. The theme was "Floating" and there's some great entries this month.
GoN went to Experimenta Playground. Our resident artist, holo` (Steven Perdikis) recently went along to the Experimenta Playground art exhibition currently visiting Adelaide, where every exhibit focusses on the concept of 'play'. They also have info about why the game Silent Hill: Homecoming has been refused classification and is therefore effectively banned from Australia.
TweakGuides have a Crysis Warhead guide posted. For the most part, tweaking Crysis Warhead and Crysis Wars is almost identical to Crysis. However there are a range of differences that I felt needed to be spelled out, so I've put together this brief Crysis Warhead Tweak Guide - to be used in conjunction with the original Crysis Tweak Guide. It should give you everything you need to know to get Crysis Warhead up to speed on your machine.
Kev sent in a YouTube video where that Hitler video we've seen remixed a million times is commenting on broadband in Hobart. In your area in Hobart.. Telstra Bigpond is the only broadband available to you.. Beware, strong language! And Nazis. :)
Bjorn3D wonder if SAS RAID setups, popular in enterprise systems, are cost-effective for enthusiasts. Although SAS HDD's are primarly aimed for the enterprise market whose main goal is to achieve the highest performance, the fact that you can find these drives in speeds of up to 15,000 RPM makes them a good candidate for enthusiasts as well.
HardCoreWare checked out budget overclocked CPUs, namely the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (2.2 GHz) taking on the Intel Celeron Dual Core E1200 (1.6 GHz). The result of the overclocking brings each CPU well past 3 GHz (with the Celeron running at more than double its rated clock speed), so the battle becomes much more intriguing.
On an even smaller scale, XbitLabs consider the Intel Atom 230, Intel Atom 330 and VIA Nano L2100 CPUs for "nettops" and similar inexpensive power-efficient systems. These solutions and similar thin and light notebooks with little computational power but long battery life turned out very demanded and quickly became very popular.
China have had their first spacewalk. Astronaut Zhai Zhigang has become the first Chinese man to walk in space, clambering out of China's Shenzhou VII space craft in a technological feat that Beijing wants the world to marvel about.
Spore has been hit with a lawsuit related to the DRM included with the game. Spore publisher Electronic Arts told buyers that there are anti-piracy safeguards but didn't advise people the SecuROM program it used "is essentially a virus that installs itself without warning," the lawsuit alleges.
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